Counting Calories for Corporate Conference
Posted on June 21st, 2010.- by Keith Polarek
Area 10 Faith Community (Richmond, Va) recently sent a small group of volunteers to participate in a Corporate Social Responsibility Conference hosted by the Hanoi Young Business Association. Joining the group from Virginia was a team from NorthWood Church (Keller, Tx). Bob Gluck and I were impressed with the high level of engagement and humbled by the sincere generosity shown by our new friends at HYBA. Between conference breakout sessions, we enjoyed connecting with our new friends on who they thought might make it to the final rounds of the World Cup. Later in the week, the conference hosts gave tours at various local companies highlighting how they have put the principles of CSR into action.
Keith Polarek led the Community Relations working group during the CSR conference
Also from Area 10 Faith Community was Dr. Ashley Woodward and Chris Barras who brought medical supplies to the staff at Chuong My Hospital in rural Hanoi. “Dr. Ashley”, an OB-GYN, assisted in the birth of a beautiful baby girl and shared a medical presentation on “Post-partum Hemorrhages.” Bob and I nodded our heads acting as if we understood what Dr. Ashley was saying. The team was also able to tour the National Cancer Hospital and an orphanage in Hanoi.
Dr. Ashley Woodward and nurses in Chuong My's ob-gyn department try out equipment donated by Area 10.
Chris Barras, lead pastor of Area 10 Faith Community, was excited to build new friendships with GVI and HYBA. By the end of the farewell dinner on the last night Chris was already talking about plans to bring another medical team back in the near future and for many years to come.
On a random but telling side note, the Area 10 Faith Community team kept a running tally of the calories collectively consumed at Fanny’s Ice Cream Parlor overlooking Hoam Kiem Lake. The result over 10 days was……… an astonishing 22,400 calories!! Ouch!!
L-R: Aaron Buck (conference presenter), Ngoc (conference interpreter), Gail Wallace (conference presenter), Chris Barras, Luu Ba Long (HYBA conference coordinator), Bob Gluck, Keith Polarek
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